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An unusual etiology of PUO.

Infection with Brucella spp. continues to pose a human health risk globally despite strides in eradicating the disease from domestic animals. Brucellosis has been an emerging disease since the discovery of Brucella melitensis by Sir David Bruce in 1887. Although many countries have eradicated B. abortus from cattle, in some areas B. melitensis and B. suis have emerged as causes of this infectio...

A Case of Appendicitis of Unusual Etiology

The patient, a girl of seventeen years, was admitted to the MIater Infirmnorum Hospital on 3rd November, 1933, as a case of acute appendicitis. She gave a typical history of abdominial pain follovwed by nausea and vomiting, the pain later settling down in the right iliac fossa, where, on admissioni, she was tender and rigid. Immecliate operation was decided onl. At operationi niothing unusual w...

Granulomatous angiitis. An unusual etiology of stroke.

A 43-year-old man, who died five months after the onset of left-sided sensory deficit, had angiographical and pathological evidence of an angiitis confined largely to the distribution of the right middle cerebral artery. Histological examination identified this process to be intracranial noninfectious granulomatous angiitis. Although certain clinical and pathological features of this disorder o...

Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia of unusual etiology

Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia (BDVT) is a rare form of ventricular arrhythmia, characterized by changing QRS axis of 180 degrees. Digitalis toxicity is considered as commonest cause of BDVT; other causes include aconite toxicity, myocarditis, myocardial infarction, metastatic cardiac tumour and cardiac channelopathies. We describe a case of BDVT in a patient with Anderson-Tawil syndrome.

Lightning: an unusual etiology of gastrointestinal perforation.